Hi Bjoern,
I would help you with secondary sources . Will help out with the template for stubs too.
No article in Wikipedia is incomplete or complete .:-) Its just stub or otherwise.
Would post the documents shortly.
-Sibi
On Feb 21, 2014 5:22 PM, "Bjoern Hassler" <bjohas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
> many thanks.
>
> What secondary sources would be appropriate? E.g. linking to research articles (published in journals, peer-reviewed)? Or (given that those are written by people involved), do they count as primary sources? THere are some referneces from other organisations to us, so that would work.
>
> What sort of banner should we put at the top of the article to flag that it's not complete?
>
> Bjoern
>
>
> On 21 February 2014 12:14, Stuart Lawson <stuart.a.lawson@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Bjoern,
>>
>> I think it's a great idea to create Wikipedia articles for these projects. The article for OER4Schools will need quite a lot of work to make it appropriate for Wikipedia; every statement must be referenced, and it can't rely only on primary sources (e.g. the OER4Schools website).
>>
>> If you know of other sources that discuss the project, please add them or references or list them on the article's talk page for other people to look at.
>>
>> If you like, you could propose similar articles on the WikiProject Open talk page.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>> On 21 February 2014 10:59, Bjoern Hassler <bjohas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I am currently at the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week, and I thought I'd raise something for discussion.
>>>
>>> Should there be wikipedia entries on projects that are to do with "open"? I.e. an entry describing the project?
>>>
>>> Should there be wikipedia entries on educational projects?
>>>
>>> E.g. the significant UNESCO TISSA project, or the CREATE project http://www.create-rpc.org/ are not on wikipedia. Larger scale projects, such as EfA / GMR:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_For_All
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_for_All_Global_Monitoring_Report
>>> are represented.
>>>
>>> Background: People at the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week here are saying that it's difficult to find out about other projects, and I would advocate that we should use wikipedia to share basic information, rather than setting up a separate platform.
>>>
>>> For example I've just created this page:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OER4Schools
>>> It's fairly unbiased, but at the same time, I am a key person within the project. So while I could defend the neutrality of the article, it may still be frowned upon.
>>>
>>> What do people think?
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Bjoern
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